Dear Comrades,
You are well aware that before and after the constitution of 7th CPC for Central Govt. Employees by the Govt., NFPE & AIPEU GDS (NFPE) along with FNPO demanding the inclusion of GDS in the purview of 7th CPC.
With fruitful efforts of our NFPE and Confederation Leadership, focused the genuine and legitimate demands of GDS in the forum of NC JCM and proposed "inclusion of GDS in 7th CPC" in the Terms of Reference and submitted to the Govt.
The Govt. notified the ToR for 7th CPC by excluding GDS and some other prime demands of Central Govt. Employees and fixed the dates to submit Memorandum to the CPC by all Organizations etc.,
NFPE and AIPEU GDS (NFPE) requested the JCM Leadership to include the item of GDS in the Memorandum submitted to CPC accordingly a separate Chapter has been placed in the Memorandum and submitted the same on 30-06-2014 by the JCM Staffside.
Copy of the Chapter :
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Chapter –XIV
Grameen Dak Sewaks
We solicit the kind reference of the 7th CPC to
the observation made by the 4th CPC in Page No.4, Part-I, Vol-I of their
report, which is reproduced for ready reference:
“The matter is however beyond controversy after
the decision of Supreme Court in Gokulananda Das Case (1957 1SCR679) where it
has been declared that an extra Departmental labour is not a casual worker but
“holds a post under the administrative control of the state” and that while
such a post is outside the regular civil services, there
is no doubt that it is a post under the “state”.
In view of the pronouncement, we were unable to accept the contention that the
Extra Departmental Employees were outside the purview of the terms of our
Commission. They no doubt have their own peculiar conditions of their own
service and in that sense their case is some what special. We therefore could
not exclude them from our consideration, but we accepted the Government
suggestion for the setting up of a one man committee to look into their conditions
of service as was done in the 2nd and 3rd Pay Commission. Accordingly, a one man’s
Committee under Shri R.R. Savoor was set up vide DG P&T’s Resolution
No.6/29/83, PA.II dated 5.11.1984.”
14.2 The argument advanced by the Postal
Department that they are outside the civil service except for the purpose of
CCS(CCA) Rules (disciplinary purposes) is untenable. That being so, the Gramin
Dak Sevaks deserves to be in the purview of the 7th CPC terms of reference. The
experiment of getting their wages revised through a One man Committee in the
past had resulted in a total deprivation of all benefits other than pay which
as civil servants all employees of the Government of India have been bestowed.
14.3 The organizations in the Postal Department
who represent the Gramin Dak Sevaks will be submitting an elaborate memorandum
containing the proposal for wage revision, revision of the existing benefits
and allowances including grant of pensionary benefits for GDS. We request the 7th
CPC to consider their memorandum and make appropriate recommendations. We also request
that the Commission not to agree with the probable suggestion of the Government
to set up a separate committee as was done earlier.
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